Destenie Nock, PhD

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Ossie’s Officially Unapproved Guide to Surviving Group Projects (Without Turning to Necromancy) — Destiny Nox A hilarious guide for surviving group projects while keeping your sanity in tact.

My student asked me why I had to assign group projects. I made this completely not-serious guide to surviving them.
Tips:
1 Assign roles by vibes.
2 Set fake deadlines.
3. Present with confidence even if the slides look raccoon-made
Full cursed guide here: destinynox.com/blog/ossies-...

If we are ever going to address the energy inequities in this country we need to look at housing stocks inequities and energy infrastructure in the home.

Very exciting!

Great tip!

Last month's total #Arctic sea ice volume averaged the 3rd lowest on record for the month of August. This was about 72% below 1979 levels and 54% below the 1979-2024 August average.

More at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... Data from PIOMAS. 🥼❄️🌊

Congratulations! This is amazing and very well deserved

Rooftop solar and energy storage programs can remediate energy-limiting behaviors of energy insecure households in the United States - Communications Earth & Environment In the United States, rooftop solar and energy storage programs can provide utility bill relief for households facing energy insecurity and who may be ineligible for traditional assistance, according ...

PNNL researchers showed rooftop solar + storage could offset two-thirds of the savings households try to get by cutting heat, cooling, or even food/health spending
Clean energy can fight climate change and help families live safely & comfortably. nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02517-5 #EnergySky

When I hear people talk about jobs impacts of AI it is all about loss, rightfully so given the disruption. But I am wondering if we should be talking about the electricians and trades people needed to enable AI. Since I can't google anything without AI these days I don't think its going anywhere.

AI is the next battleground where equity will be tested. We need to build our energy infrastructure in a way to not further burden communities with reliability issues.

It's nice to see something positive popping up on the feed. More housing is a win.

Yay! Was a great win.

Very gratifying to get some actual hopeful news this week

Assessing the feasibility of temperature response models for residential energy consumption behavior analysis Temperature response functions (TRFs) are models used to predict a household’s daily energy consumption from outdoor temperature and other control var…

New research on temperature response functions (TRFs):
We tested how well these models hold up to regression assumptions. 1. Stronger TRFs = better insight into energy programs 2. Results are consistent across ~450k households (FL + Mid-Atlantic). #EnergySky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do you know what's way more expensive than keeping the power on?

Paying for thousands of people to rip up their walls and floors after their pipes burst in a cold snap. Just ask Texas.

Very good point!

Any idea how AI will impact this?

New paper highlighting impact of energy assistance (LIHEAP): Homes use enough extra energy to heat safely. On-time aid helps prevent energy-limiting behavior

Paper: Heterogeneous impact of low-income home energy assistance program on energy consumption behavior share.google/AaxaTcC8Q4Ex...

Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program is worth funding Last winter, more than 600,000 households in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and the District of Columbia relied on the Low ‑ Income Home Energy Assistance Program to keep the lights on a...

Last winter, 600,000+ households in the Mid-Atlantic relied on LIHEAP to keep the lights on & pipes from freezing.

Now, the federal budget proposes eliminating the program entirely.

LIHEAP saves lives.

Op-Ed here: share.google/wPCWNcPEzkY6...

Nice!

Some low-income households may have used their new, efficient ACs more often—suggesting rebates helped them achieve cooling they previously couldn’t afford.

Powering fairness in climate adaptation capabilities: Evaluating the influence of air conditioning rebates in a hot climate Assisting households with maintaining adequate energy supply is one method for improving overall quality of life. Households experiencing energy insec…

We looked at how air conditioning rebates affect households in hot climates. Using data from 138,000+ homes in Tallahassee, FL:

Low-income homes saved about $25 per cooling season after rebates. Higher-income homes saved a bit more (about $31).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Transportation + electricity = most U.S. emissions. EVs can cut both—if we don’t slam the brakes on investments.

When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, U.S. EV investment surged.

But in 2025, “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” killed most incentives—and investment collapsed.

Our study shows this won’t just stall clean cars. Fewer EVs also mean less investment to clean up the grid.

Heat is predatory. It attacks the most vulnerable first: older people, those with weak hearts or lung conditions, pregnant, & ppl who are on certain drugs (like antidepressants) that can interfere with the body’s ability to regulate its internal temperature. & workers who spend >8 hr/day outdoors

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A recent study by Imperial College London’s Grantham Institute, for example, found that during a 10-day heat wave this summer in Europe, 1,500 of the 2,300 estimated heat deaths could be linked to human-caused climate change. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

Opinion | The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked

The heat has unvieled our true class divisions. The cooled vs the cooked is an interesting opinion article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

I'm convinced that anyone denying climate change has refused to step outside, read the news, or watch the weather channel in the summer.

UAE has hottest May on record after temperatures top 50ºC | The National New average high reported for second month in a row, but June is off to a cooler start

Anthropogenic Global Warming & Extreme/Record Heat (File created 20250604) 🧵

www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/202...

#ExtremeHeat
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming